Charles W. Moore

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AARP Immunization knowledge test

Score: 100%

You answered 8 out of 8 questions correctly.

1. How often do adults 65 and older need the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) or Td (tetanus, diphtheria) booster vaccine?

Your Answer: Once for Tdap, then a Td booster every 10 years

Correct Answer: Once for Tdap, then a Td booster every 10 yearsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that every adult receive a Tdap vaccination, then a Td booster every 10 years. Also, women should get the Tdap vaccine each time they are pregnant.

2. What is pertussis?

Your Answer: Whooping cough

Correct Answer: Whooping coughThe highly contagious respiratory disease, for which there is a vaccination, can affect people of all ages but can be fatal in babies under a year old, according to the CDC.

3. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices now recommends this vaccine for shingles.

Your Answer: Shingrix

Correct Answer: ShingrixThe two-dose vaccine protects against the painful rash of shingles, which is caused by the varicella-zoster virus.

4. Who is at increased risk for meningitis?

Your Answer: Someone with a damaged spleen

Correct Answer: Someone with a damaged spleenVaccinations are available for meningitis, which is a bacterial infection that causes swelling around the brain and spinal cord. The spleen plays an important role in killing bacteria in the bloodstream, and people with damaged spleens are more vulnerable to many infections, including meningitis.

5. How often should most adults over 65 get the pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia)?

Your Answer: There are two vaccines, and each should be given one time, a year apart

Correct Answer: There are two vaccines, and each should be given one time, a year apartThe CDC currently recommends a vaccine called PVC13 first, then a dose of the PPSV23 vaccine a year later. The vaccines protect against different strains of pneumococcal bacteria.

6. Who should be sure to talk to a doctor about their heightened risk of a reaction before getting the influenza vaccine?

Your Answer: Those who are allergic to eggs

Correct Answer: Those who are allergic to eggsThe flu vaccine has egg protein in it, but the CDC now considers the risk of a severe reaction in people allergic to eggs to be low. It still, however, recommends that people with a history of severe egg allergies be given the vaccine under the supervision of a medical professional who can recognize and manage severe allergic conditions.

7. The risk of this side effect from a flu vaccine varies from season to season, but the CDC estimates it is very low in the population as a whole.

Your Answer: Guillian-Barré syndrome

Correct Answer: Guillian-Barré syndromeThe immune systems in patients with Guillian-Barré syndrome attack and damage their nerve cells. Most patients recover fully within a few weeks, although death has been reported in rare cases.

8. Why are people born before 1957 usually immune to measles and mumps?

Your Answer: Nobody was vaccinated before 1957, so those born before are likely to have had the disease and already have immunity.

Correct Answer: Nobody was vaccinated before 1957, so those born before are likely to have had the disease and already have immunity.Note, however, that if you were born before 1957 and don’t know your immunization status, you should ask your doctor if you need to get the vaccine.

Do you belive?

“To believe something is to act as if it’s true”- Dallas Willard

“It’s not a lie if you truly believe it”- George Castanza.

I guess I would believe Dallas Willard before old George but then again, they are saying the same thing.

Rats and the Elephant

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TED Event: Water, Waste Water, Effluents

A Teds talk subject: The summer of 2019 has seen heat records tumble like dominoes across the Northern Hemisphere. On May 26, the thermometer climbed to 102 in Savannah, Georgia, an all-time high for that month; the same day, it hit an unprecedented 103.1 in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. Then, in June, a three-week heat wave tore through Pakistan and India, where it reached 123.4 in the central city of Churu. In July, it was Western Europe’s turn when the temperature soared to 108.7 in Paris and 102.2 in Brussels.

Utopia

Growing up I lived in Utopia or at least I thought I did. All that went away with the beginning of the teen years. Now at advanced age, I would like to get that all back again. However, thinking back over my life from my current vantage point I lead a gilded life full of challenges met and a few not.

I wish I had treated everyone the same way I treated the best of my friends and even better. Interspersed are regrets and things I am so ashamed of I cannot dwell on them and try to forget them quickly – at least until they resurface.

This subject is a never ending story and I wish I could remember the name of the song from the 60’s I like so much: I found it thanks to search engines – it is “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers. I think I’ll end this post with a success.

Lyrebird Mimicker Songs

The video is bad but the songs are nice.

Preeclampsia

* More Evidence Ties Preeclampsia to Long-Term Diastolic Dysfunction

(Reuters Health) – Women who develop preeclampsia may face a wide variety of heart problems long after they give birth, a research review concludes.

“This review demonstrates that the cardiac dysfunction associated with previous pre-eclampsia is quantifiable and persistent. Progression of heart failure from asymptomatic to symptomatic stages carries a fivefold increase in mortality,” write the authors.

“The use of echocardiography could detect cardiac dysfunction in the asymptomatic stage and guide more intensive risk factor modification in these women,” they say.

US hacking security alert; small planes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert Tuesday for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft.

An alert from the DHS critical infrastructure computer emergency response tea m recommends that plane owners ensure they restrict unauthorized physical access to their aircraft until the industry develops safeguards to address the issue, which was discovered by a Boston-based cybersecurity company and reported to the federal government. The link to the full article is below.

The Article

IRL: Tech Worker Revolt

There’s a movement building within tech. Workers are demanding higher standards from their companies — and because of their unique skills and talent, they have the leverage to get attention. Walkouts and sit-ins. Picket protests and petitions. Shareholder resolutions, and open letters. These are the new tools of tech workers, increasingly emboldened to speak out. And, as they do that, they expose the underbellies of their companies’ ethics and values, or perceived lack of them.

In this episode of IRL, host Manoush Zomorodi meets with Rebecca Stack-Martinez, an Uber driver fed up with being treated like an extension of the app; Jack Poulson, who left Google over ethical concerns with a secret search engine being built for China; and Rebecca Sheppard, who works at Amazon and pushes for innovation on climate change from within. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn explains why this movement is happening now, and why it matters for all of us.

https://irlpodcast.org/season5/episode4/